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Thriving in a Male-Dominated Workplace (HBR Women at Work Series)
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Thriving in a Male-Dominated Workplace (HBR Women at Work Series)

by Harvard Business Review, Stacey Abrams, Lara Hodgson, Joseph Grenny, Michelle P. King
December 2022
Beginner
256 pages
3h 35m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
Content preview from Thriving in a Male-Dominated Workplace (HBR Women at Work Series)

INTRODUCTION

Fighting the Disparities

by Amanda Kersey, producer of Women at Work

Toward the end of 2019, Women at Work cohost Amy Gallo and I visited Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts. Olin’s student body is slightly over half female—an extraordinary gender ratio for an engineering program. We were there to hear from two seniors, Ana and Elena, who would soon enter a workforce that was far less equal and far more inhospitable. We wanted to ask them what sort of support they had gotten in school that they hoped to receive in their jobs and how they envisioned their futures. Having read up on the career outlook for women in STEM fields, I wondered whether Ana and Elena understood the extent of the challenges awaiting them, whether ...

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ISBN: 9781647824624